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Shauntay Hinton
Hinton Miss USA 2002
Born	(1979-02-26) February 26, 1979 (age 45) Starkville, Mississippi, U.S.
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title	Miss District of Columbia USA 2002 Miss USA 2002
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Brown
Major competition(s)	Miss USA 2002 (Winner) Miss Universe 2002 (Unplaced)

Shauntay Renae Hinton (born February 26, 1979) is an American actress, tv host and beauty pageant titleholder who won the title of Miss USA 2002 and represented the United States at Miss Universe 2002 pageant.

Biography

Born and reared in her native Starkville, Mississippi, Hinton stepped into the national spotlight as Miss USA 2002. After attending Howard University in Washington D.C., with a major in broadcast journalism, she used her communication skills along with the coveted title of Miss USA to work on behalf of charitable organizations like Susan G. Komen For The Cure, Miriam's Kitchen, Gilda's House, the USO and the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Shauntay is credited for helping to raise $34 million for all her charitable causes in 2002. A frequent guest co-anchor/panelist debating current events and pop culture on HLN network programs including PRIME NEWS and SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Shauntay is currently an anchor for the Sunrise Morning Show for North Mississippi's local CBS news affiliate, WCBI. Her other credits include a recurring role on Nickelodeon's "iCarly" as "Jessica Warner", hosting lifestyle and entertainment programming for NBC, Fox Sports, Fox Movie Channel, Lifetime, HGTV, Twentieth Television, BET, TV One, Current TV and The History Channel. Shauntay also serves as an Ambassador for ChildFund International (aka Christian Children's Fund).

Education

Hinton graduated from Starkville High School in 1997. She later studied broadcast communications at Howard University.

Pageants

Hinton won the Miss District of Columbia USA 2002 title in November 2001, the first time she had competed in the competition. Hinton hails from Starkville, Mississippi and qualified to compete Miss District of Columbia USA as she was attending Howard University.

Hinton went on to represent the District of Columbia at the Miss USA 2002 pageant held in Gary, Indiana on 1 March 2002 where she became the fourth African American to win the Miss USA title. The pageant marked the first time that 4 out of the 5 five finalists were African American.

Hinton later competed in the Miss Universe 2002 pageant in Puerto Rico in May that year. As of 2010, she is one of only four Miss USA winners not to have placed among the semi-finalists in the Miss Universe pageant. The other three are Miss USA 1976 Barbara Peterson, Miss USA 1999 Kimberly Pressler, and Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih.

Hinton spoke out on the Miss USA 2010 official photo controversy on Showbiz Tonight on May 5, HLN Prime News on May 10, 2010, and on several other news channels. She believes the photos are not racy, and that they represent "women comfortable in their own skin."

Casting

She plays a live action character, reporter Brittany Bhima, in the video game Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, released in 2007.

In 2009, Hinton played Jessica Warner in 2 episodes of iCarly.

Filmography

References

1. Shidler, Lisa. "Dream comes true for queen: Red, white and blue ushers in D.C. winner Shauntay Hinton". Post-Tribune. Archived from the original on 2006-03-22. Retrieved 2006-02-25.
2. "CNN.com". CNN.

External links

• Shauntay Hinton at IMDb

v t e United States at Miss Universe
Miss Universe	Miriam Stevenson (1954) Carol Morris (1956) Sharon Brown (1960) Sylvia Hitchcock (1967) Shawn Weatherly (1980) Chelsi Smith (1995) Brook Lee (1997) Olivia Culpo (2012) R'Bonney Gabriel (2022)
1st runner-up	Myrna Hansen (1953) Deborah Shelton (1970) Amanda Jones (1973) Judi Andersen (1978) Julie Hayek (1983) Christy Fichtner (1986) Carole Gist (1990) Shandi Finnessey (2004) Nia Sanchez (2014)
2nd runner-up	Terry Lynn Huntingdon (1959) Sue Ann Downey (1965) Summer Bartholomew (1975) Michelle Royer (1987) Gretchen Polhemus (1989) Kandace Krueger (2001) Olivia Jordan (2015)
3rd runner-up	Eurlyne Howell (1958)
4th runner-up	Sharon Brown (1961) Dorothy Anstett (1968) Terri Utley (1982) Tara Conner (2006) Rachel Smith (2007)
Top 5-6	Kelli McCarty (1991) Kenya Moore (1993) Lu Parker (1994) Ali Landry (1996) Shawnae Jebbia (1998) Lynnette Cole (2000)
Top 10-13	Jackie Loughery (1952) Michele McDonald (1971) Tanya Wilson (1972) Karen Morrison (1974) Kimberly Tomes (1977) Mary Therese Friel (1979) Kim Seelbrede (1981) Mai Shanley (1984) Laura Martinez-Herring (1985) Courtney Gibbs (1988) Shannon Marketic (1992) Chelsea Cooley (2005) Crystle Stewart (2008) Kristen Dalton (2009) Erin Brady (2013) Deshauna Barber (2016) Kára McCullough (2017) Cheslie Kryst (2019) Elle Smith (2021)
Top 15-16	Carlene King Johnson (1955) Macel Wilson (1962) Marite Ozers (1963) Bobbi Johnson (1964) Maria Remenyi (1966) Wendy Dascomb (1969) Susie Castillo (2003) Alyssa Campanella (2011)
Top 20-21	Sarah Rose Summers (2018) Asya Branch (2020) Noelia Voigt (2023)
Did not place	Barbara Peterson (1976) Kimberly Pressler (1999) Shauntay Hinton (2002) Rima Fakih (2010) Alma Cooper (2024)
Miss USA Miss Universe

• 1979 births
• American beauty pageant winners
• Howard University alumni
• Living people
• Miss Universe 2002 contestants
• Miss USA 2002 delegates
• Miss USA winners
• People from Starkville, Mississippi
• African-American beauty pageant winners
• 21st-century African-American women
• 21st-century African-American people